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BY HEBA HESHAM Cairo: Within 15 minutes of convening a controversial parliamentary session, PA Speaker Saad El-Katatny adjourned following a decision to refer a Supreme Constitutional Court’s (SCC) ruling dissolving parliament to the Cassation Court for a final verdict on the status of the legislative body.The election law regulating last year’s parliamentary elections was deemed unconstitutional by the SCC last month and the military council dissolved the parliament accordingly. On Sunday, President Mohamed Morsi reversed the military decision and called on the parliament to reconvene until early elections within 60 days of the approval of the new constitution in a…

BY SARAH EL SIRGANY and RANIA AL MALKY Cairo: It was hyped up as a confrontation between military-led state institutions and election legitimacy, but the anticlimactic arrival of a handful of members of the recently dissolved parliament on Tuesday revealed that no one had confrontation in mind except some enthusiastic protesters. On Monday night, an official at the Freedom and Justice Party, whose MPs constitute the bigger part of the Islamist majority, said that MPs will march to parliament on Tuesday to attend the session as scheduled. The same official, Yasser Ali, was vague about the prospect of confrontation. The…